Peptides were synthesised by solid phase method using amino acid derivatives with 9-fluorenyl methyloxy carbonyl (Fmoc) protected α-amino groups (Novabiochem).
The procedure was performed as described elsewhere 35 . Stable isotope-containing leucine (Fmoc-Leu-OH-13 C6, 15 N, Cambridge Isotope Laboratories) was applied for labeling 11-plex peptides from cpx protein (NQMETQVNEL h K and NQIETQVNEL h K).
A resin with attached stable isotope-labeled lysine (L-Lys (Boc) ( 13 Further steps of synthesis were also preceded as described 35 .
For synthesis quality control, a simple LC-MS analysis was held using a chromatographic Agilent ChemStation 1200 series connected to an
Agilent 1100 series LC/MSD Trap XCT Ultra mass spectrometer (Agilent, USA). Since our peptides contained methionine residues, the quality control also included manual inspection of the MS and MS/MS spectra for possible presence of the peaks produced by oxidized compounds. No such peaks were found in our case.
Concentrations of synthesised peptides were determined using conventional amino acid analysis with their orthophtalic derivatives according to standard amino acid samples.
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